At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

  • -- Clarence Darrow 达罗

二十岁的人充满斗志和希望。他想改革世界。当他七十岁时,他仍然想改革世界,但他知道他不能。

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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the sound of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

当我们从旧时代跨入新时代,当一个时代结束,当一个长期受到压制的国家发出声音的时候,一个时刻来临了,这在历史上是罕见的。

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one.

革命不是反对现存秩序的起义,而是建立与传统秩序相矛盾的新秩序。

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

同情的裂缝。建筑师和测量员常用的术语,指老化的房屋。我知道他们的意思。

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you

中年是星期六晚上你坐在家里,电话铃响了,你希望那不是给你的

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

每一项改革,无论多么必要,都会被意志薄弱的人推到过分的地步,而这种改革本身就需要改革。

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

时间改变了一切,除了我们内心总是被变化所震惊的东西。

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

革命并非一帆风顺。

Adversity precedes growth.

逆境之前增长。